Press arrangement for color printing



Jan. 12, 1960 w. E. KEIGHTLEY 2,920,887

PRESS ARRANGEMENT FOR COLOR PRINTING Filed Nov. 13, 1956 3 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR WILLIAM E. KEIGHTLEY M QW J L ATTORNEYS FIG.

Jan. 12, 1960 w. L. KEIGHTLEY PRESS ARRANGEMENT FOR COLOR PRINTING Filed Nov. 1:5. 19 56 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR WILLIAM E. KEIG HTLEY ATTORNEYS Jan. 12, 1960 w. E. KEIGHTLEY PRESS ARRANGEMENT FOR COLOR PRINTING 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Filed Nov. 13, 1956 INVENTOR WILLIAM E. KEIGHTLEY BY 5M, i l.

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ATTORNEYS I 3 2 288 PREss ARRANGEMENT FOR COLOR W m E- K i fle Bu l N assisliqr o W United States Patent 0 Newspaper Machinery CorporatinntPlainfield, Mich, l

a corporationof Yirgiinia Application November 13, 1956, Serial No, @5571 '6 Claims. oi. 279- This invention relates to printing presses and particularly o p e ns al a o s embody n a u e of P es and means for assembling and folding together the.-

printed webs printed ing units.

More particularly, the invention consists of a press installation embodying both black ink presses and color presses which are so arranged and their operation so coordinated that the webs printed on the color presses may be interleaved with the webs printed on the various units of the black ink presses in any desired relationship withsirnnltaneously on the separate printout changing the setup other than re-threading the webs from the several press units,

In the printing of newspapers, particularly Sunday newspapers which contain a number of different sections, it is desirable to use the same printing units for printing the several sections, and as the sheets printed in eolor are differently placed in the different sections of the newspaper it is important that the. change in arrangement of the webs printed in color and the webs printed in black be made quickly so that the stoppage ofthe-printing operation will not be longer than th period necessarily involved in changing the printing plates. on he printing cylinders. s

As stated above, according-to our invention the change in the position of the Webs printed in color requires no alteration in the press setup but merely a re-threading ,of certain of the webs in their passage from the presses to the folding unit.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown a typical printing installation constructed and arranged in accordance with my invention wherein two lines of black ink presses each comprising six units are so assembled with the two color printing units that the Webs from either or both of the units may be interleaved at any point in either or both of the superimposed webs printed on the two lines of black presses as the superimposed Webs approach the foldingunits.

Referring to the drawings,

Fig. l is a plan view of the above described installation she-wing the relative arrangement of the 'various presses and other units making up the installation;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of one of the rows of black ink presses and the web assembling units; and

Fig. 3 is aside elevation of one of the color press unit combinations.

Referring to the drawings, particularly Fig. 1,;the installatiori, as stated, comprises two black ink presses unit .combinations A and B, respectively, each comprising six presses arranged in a row'with the axes of theprinting cylinders transverse to the common longitudinal axis of the row. In the arrangement shown three presses 1 of each row are set up to one side of the folding stands 2 in each line with the three presses 1a of the row at the other side of the folding stand. 7

The color press units 3 are arranged in two units C of two press units each, the said color units being positioned between the lines A and B of the black ink press 2,920,887 Ice Patented Jan. 1?, 9

2 units and substantially in line with the middle presses of the respective groups of three.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the presses diagrammatically a e ven iqna w pape pr sse avi g wo pri cylinders each, whereby bothsides of the web are printed as the web passes through the press unit. The color press units with color cylinders 3A are illustrated in Fig. 3 and are arranged with the axes of their cylinders at right angles to the cylinders of the blackink presses whereby the webs delivered by the color printing units travel outwardly at right angles to the path of travel of the webs printed by theblack ink presses.

Supported in a positionoverlying' the middle black ink press unit of each group of three press units is an angle bar stand each containing in the setup shown five angle bars 5 arranged one above the other and positioned to turn the webs from the color presses at right angles so that after passing the angle bars they travel in paths parallel with the webs from the several black ink presses.

In the setup shown guide rollers for the'various .webs are so arranged that the Webs from all four color press units may be assembled with the webs 'printed on black press unit B, or all four may be assembled with the webs printed on black press unit A. By this arrangement of guide rollers and angle bars four webs printed'in color may bedivided between the two lines of black ink presses in any desired manner and the webs positioned at any desired place with respect to the webs printed in'black.

' It willbe noted that the press unit 1 to the left of the folding stand 2 has two pairs of take-off rollers 6, 6a whereby the webs from this press unit may be directed in either direction to thereby guide the web either above or below the web from the lowermost angle bar 5 in the adjacent stand. When the web'froin this press unit is to underlie the Web from the lowermost angle bar it is threaded from the adjacent take-olf roller6 over the lowermost roller 7 of a row of five arranged vertically one above the other above and to the left of the foldin'g stand. The web then passes over the folding stand, and around the lowermost roller 8 of a similar vertical row of five rollers above the folding stand and to the right as shown in Fig. 2, and thence to the folder 9 along with the webs from the other press'units, as will be later described.

Between the folding stand 2 and the stand 4 for the angle bars 5 are a series of feed rollers 10, arranged vertically one above the other, for guiding the webs from the angle bars to the adjacent rollers 7. i

To the right of the rollers 10 are a series of guide rollers ;11 positioned to guide the Webs from the black ink presses above the adjacent angle bars 5 to one of the rollers 7 of the row at the left of the folding stand 2. A similar row of guide rollers 12 is arranged at the left of the angle bars 5 to guide the webs from'the three black ink presses 1 to the guide rollers 11. Below the rollers 1,?! and slightly to the left are three rollers 13 to guide the webs from the press units -1' to the rollers 12'. The web from the alternate set ,of take-01f rollers 6a of the press nearest the folding stand is threaded over one of the rollers 12 and thence to one of the rollers 11 when it is desired to position the Web from this press above the webs from one or both of the color presses.

To the right of the vertical row ofrollers 8 and in the same horizontal plane as the lowermost roller .8 is a series of guide rollers -15 for guiding the .webs-fromt-he rollers 8 to the feed roller 14 of the folder.

By means of the above described structure thewebs from the two color presses making up the adjacent group may be interleaved with the webs from the three black ink press units at any position, either together or separately.

A similar arrangement of guide rollers and angle bars r 3 is provided for interleaving the webs from the color press units of the second group C with the webs from the three black ink press units 1a to the right of the folding stand. These include two vertical series of rollers 10d and 11a which receive the webs from the adjacent angle bars 5 and rollers 12a corresponding to the rollers 12 and guide the webs to the appropriate guide rollers 15 and thence to the feed roller 14 of the folder. rollers 13a corresponding to the rollers 13 is also provided flcgr guiding the webs from the press units to the rollers a. I Fig. 3 shows one of the presses made up of tw color units. As here shown each color unit 3 has two sets of take-offrollers, 16 164 by means of which the web from each press unit may be directed toward either the .right or the left so that both webs may be interleaved with the webs of either unit of black ink presses, or one of the webs printed in color may be interleaved with the webs of each of the black ink units. As will be noted in Fig. 3, a guide roller 17 is provided for each of the angle bars so that the webs from the two press units 3 may be threaded around any two of the angle bars.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the webs threaded to place a sheet printed in color on the outside of the assembled and folded webs printed on the black ink press units of row A, and also as the middle Web with one other web printed incolor at an intermediate position. The fourth web printed in color is directed toward row B of the black ink press units.

It will be understood that by merely changing the threading of the webs, which may readily be done in A set of thetime required to change the printing plates, the webs i from each group of. color presses may be interleaved in any desired manner with the webs printed on the three .a'djacent presses of both rows.

It will be noted in Fig. 1 that the formers 18 of folder -A are pointed to the right and the formers 18 of folder B are pointed to the left. Thus, with this press arrange- .ment I am able to direct the color webs from color units C on the left hand side of Fig. 1 into webs behind folder A and color webs from color units C on the right hand sideof Fig; 1 into Webs behind folder B so as to produceidentical products from the two presses. Conversely, I can direct color webs from color units C on the left hand side of Fig. 1 into webs in front of folder B and color webs from the color units on the right hand side ofFig. 1 into webs in front of folder A to give identical products from the two presses.

Furthermore, I am able to interleave one color web in any desired location into the webs in front of each folder and another color web in any desired location into the webs in back of each folder to produce identical products on each of the two presses. Thus, I am able to obtain maximum flexibility in the placement of color in the products and also assemble identical products in each folder, which isvery desirable in the mass production of newspapers. I

It' will also be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular arrangement of presses and web feeding and folding means herein shown and described except insofar as recited in the appended claims.

I claim:

'1. A printing press installation comprising two rows of presses each consisting of a plurality of web printing units arranged with their printing cylinders parallel and and at right angles to a common median transverse plane, the presses of each row being in two groups, a

folding stand in each row betweenthe two groups, said folding stand in each said row having a former and the formers in said two rows being positioned in opposite directions to one another, guiding means for the webs printed on said cylinders for guiding said webs in spaced parallel planes, the median transverse planes of the two rows of presses being parallel, a third row of presses between the first two rows of presses and at one side of the folding stands, and means for guiding the webs printed on the presses of the third row toward the presses of either of the two first mentioned rows and interleaving said webs with the webs printed on the presses of such row.

2. The printing press installation of claim 1 wherein the presses of the third row have a common median transverse plane which is at right angles to the common median planes of the presses of the first mentioned 'I'OWS.

"units arranged with their printing cylinders parallel and at right angles to a common median transverse plane, guiding means for the webs printed on said cylinders for guiding said webs in spaced parallel planes, the median transverse planes of the two rows of presses being parallel, a former in each of said two rows for forming the webs and being positioned oppositely with respect to each other, a third row of presses between the first two rows of presses, a fourth row of presses between the two first mentioned rows of presses and parallel with the third row of presses, and means for guiding the webs printed on the presses of the third and fourth rows toward the presses of either of the two first menmedian transverse planes which are at right angles to the common median planes of the presses of the first mentioned rows.

5. A printing press installation comprising two rows of presses each consisting of a plurality of web printing units arranged with their printing cylinders parallel and at right angles to a common median transverse plane, the presses of each row being in two groups, a folding stand in each row between the two groups, guiding means for the webs printed on said cylinders for guiding said webs in spaced parallel planes, the median transverse planes of the two rows of presses being parallel, a third row of presses between the first two rows of presses and at one side of the folding stands, a fourth row of presses between the two first mentioned rows of presses at the other side of the folding stands, and means for guiding the webs printed on the presses of the third and fourth rows toward the presses of either of the two first mentioned rows and interleaving said webs with the webs printed on the presses of such row.

6. The press installation of claim 5 wherein the formers of the folding stands are pointed in opposite directions.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 2,920,887 January 1960 I I William 1:. Keightley It is hereby certified that error appears. in the above numbered patent. requiring correction and that the said Letters Patent should read as. corrected below,

In the grant, line 3, address of assignee for "Plainfield, Michigan" read Plainfield, New Jersey in the heading to the printed specification, line-4, for "Plainfield', Mich," read Plainfield, N. J.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of August 1960.

(SEAL) Attest:

KARL AXLINE' ROBERT c. WATSON Attesting Officer I Comnissioner of Patents 

